Words for This Book

 --A Text from the Scene of the South

By Cheng Lie,  tr. by Chen Zihong

When money becomes the criterion that overrides all human activity, poetry writing is a cruel task in the world. If he lacks spiritual will and emotional strength, for a poet, he's having a hard time keeping up.

More often, I realized that I could not put together the fragments of writing consciousness and memory in a short period of time. Many times, while I clearly narrated a certain part of something, the other part of memory quietly slipped away unexpectedly. But the missing part didn't prevent me describing it, and it would come back. Maybe it's hidden in another period of confusion.

The spillover effect of time has some kind of uncertainty influence on writing. The will of man is almost defeated and broken, while in the state of embarrassment , or by the gray time. Beyond pale day and night alternating, all my presentiments of words came from how I felt when I was awakened by time many times. On countless nights, a encyclopedia that fascinates me has been bringing me into the depths fantastic, with the gilded book cover that continues to increase its influence. I would like to thank the fantasy and reality - these two powerful wings- which enable me to decipher the codes of symbols. This book is just a regular cluster of symbols, which sings the nothingness of time. Because of pale moon and traditions,  the art that I praised as well, it's destined that I can only be a poet , a coder for poem text and even a observer who lingers on other literary genres and arts.

Per se，I think of a perfectionist who had been trying to find a way of writing in an attempt to perfect a poem or anthor work. Memory acquiring is a common writing habit. When a poem or novel is finished, the author does not be his keeper (only just a reader.) In order to restore the aesthetic intention of non-verbal form in his memory, the author himself reads again, and trying to regain the initial state in a sense. 

I would like to have a balance, get rid of the boring word games completely and be able to stand on the bank of words for showing the loneliness of genius. As far as I know, the poems in this book that written at the behest of Goddess Luna and countless stars, are the most natural implicit and ancient expression of human beings.

Chengdu, 2018

一个南方的写作文本

程烈

当金钱凌驾于人类的一切活动时，诗歌写作就成为世上最残酷的一件事。对一位诗人而言，如果没有一种精神意志和情感力量的支撑，是很难坚持下去的。

时常感到无法在某个短时间内，把自己的写作意识与记忆的碎片集合起来，往往在清晰记叙某一部分线索的同时，另外一部分的记忆悄无声息地意外溜走了。但这部分丢失的意识，并不妨碍我对于所需记忆的渲染，它还会再回来，也许就在扑朔迷离的另一段时间当中。

溢出的时间，对写作具有某些不确定性。在倥偬之境，晦涩不明的日子几乎快把人的意志摧毁，贫乏的昼夜不断交替，文字全部的预感均源自一次次被时间唤醒时的感觉。在夜晚，一部着了魔的百科全书带我走进魅影深处，烫金的文字在不断加码，归功于幻想和现实这两只坚韧的翅膀，得以破解符号的秘密。这只是一本普通的抒写时间虚无的卷帙符号。因为淡月，因为传统，和赞美的艺术，注定了我只可能是一个诗人，一个诗歌的文字编码者，然后才是一位其他文学艺术的逗留者。

由此，随想到一个完美主义者，一直在努力寻找的写作途径，以求一首诗或某个作品能够臻于完美之境。回忆，作为写作习惯具有普遍性，当一首诗或一部小说完成后，它的作者就成为一位读者。再一次阅读的过程，则是为了帮助记忆恢复无语境界的审美意图，在某种意义上回到作者创作原初的那一刻。   

希望有一种均衡，能够彻底摆脱无聊的文字游戏，站在一切词汇之上，呈现天才的孤独。就我所知，书中那些由月神与无数的繁星把握、授意而写下的诗歌，才是人类最自然含蓄而古老的表达。                                                                       

成都，2018年